According to Breitbart, the site went down after a local station advertised the free course. And now, according to Sanford, “You can see it, but you cannot do anything with it.”

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When he spoke with a Facebook representative, he was told the page was taken down “because the page was not an actual person.”

Seriously?

After Sanford proved to Facebook that he was, in fact, a real person, Facebook reinstated the page, then took it down again several days later. That was 10 days ago.

Sanford was not the only one being similarly treated by the social media giant. Alien Gear social media manager Rob Russo said that “content that would normally reach our nearly one million followers has steadily dropped to a fraction of what it once was, despite our page’s continual growth of new followers.”

Alien Gear was just one of many companies lashing out at Facebook for its blatant bias against Second Amendment supporters and gun owners.

Brandon Curtis, publisher of Concealed Nation, contacted Facebook to see why their site was being suppressed, for example. They said it was suppressed due to “too much commercial content.”

Facebook is a private corporation, and as such we support its right to do whatever it pleases with the information on its vast social network.

But we’d also encourage it to be honest about what it’s doing and why and warn it not to be too confident that the free market won’t develop an alternative that the one-third of Americans who own guns prefer.